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Arix9nian scacti.

Another curious variety is one that grows 8 bunch of straight, dry sticks, like q dozen fish poles set in the ground together. Not a leaf, blossom, or sign of life is on them at this season of the year unless we mention the long needles or spines with which each pole is plentifully supplied. There is certainly life in them, if you hap pen to let one strike your leg as it hangs along the trail
 Then there are a hundred differ ent shapes of the ''nigger head" cactus, a round green ball, some times two or three i'll bunch, from the size of base ball up to that of 6 bushel basket. The lit tie fellows of this variety are reg ular traps for tho careless, and many a weary traveller has thrown himself down on grassy spot, on ly to find that the cactus was there before him and ready fer business. W. C. Barnes in February Over lsnd.
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Pack Trains in Arizona.

Every mule is given his load usually not over two hundred pounds, excepti in emergencies. It is divided as nearly as possible in to two equal packs and is lashed On to the large aparejo-a peculiar style of Spanish pack rig-by the famous diamond hitch" It is wonderful how rapidly we'll trained crew will pack up d lot of stuff, and still more wonderful is the amount of stuff that can be packed. h fact there is hardly anything, however clumsy or awk- ward to handle, that a pack train cannot carry, providing, of course, 1t comes within the limit of weight. The writer has seen everything, from cookstove and Saratoga trunk to bedstead, sent over to the "pack corral" and nothing ever came back; although I re- member that the mule with the bedstead ran against tree with the long side pieces. going down a steep trail, and rolled some five or six hundred feet down, much to the damage of the bedstead, but it never hurt the mule. Another time mule loaded with three hundred pounds of bacon in great slabs lost his footing and rolled down a hill some two hundred feet and finally pitched off over a cliff straight down fifty feet, alighting on his back in a creek below. When the lashings were cut the mule rolled over, and began to drink, as if such things were of everyday occurrence in his family. As an Irish orderly remarked: "Well, bedad, if that mule didn't save his bacon, his bacon surely saved From In the Apache Country in February Overland.
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Arizona q Kew Mexico R. R. Time

Trains run daily, Sundays excepted.
 ". u. JON ES. Gen'i. Superintendent.
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Does Farming Pay?

No one who is at all versed in
 economic laws will hesitate to
 say that, in the long run, farming
 must pay. Like other industries,
 it has it's periods of depression
 the present low price of wheat, for
 instance butt unlike most other
 industries, 1t can change its pro-
 duct accordingly. When, from
 overproduction or other cause,
 there is fall in the price of iron,
 the forges cannot change to mak-
 ing boots and shoes, but must sus-
 pend their operations until the de-
 mand catches up with the supply.
 The world is now glutted with
 wheat, but farmers can turn their
 attention to the production of
 meat, raising more grass, root
 crops and corn. The price of meat
 is steadily advancing from one generation to the other. There is
 no danger iniour day of ever pro- ducing too much of it-there be- ing countless millions ln the world to whom it is yet only known as & luxury.
 Farming pays from any point of view we may choose to take of 1t. The idea that farmer can only make a living by his work, that there Is no chance of his ever becoming rich, is all nonsense. It Is true that farming can't be com pared 10 banking, for q man has to be rich before he can become a banker. But when due allowance is made for the different amounts of capital invested, we venture to assert that the average farmer makes more money, works less, has better health and lives longer than the average banker. It is fair to put the farmers and their employees into one class and the people living in cities in the other. Let us compare the two: take say one hundred thousand of those liv- ing in the city and compare them with one hundred thousand in the country. The city may contain a dozen millionaires and the country none, but there will be dozens of paupers in the city and not one in the country. Out of the one hun dred thousand living in the city only a few have independent in- vast majority of them living on wages. and if disharged today would not know where to get their bread tomorrow. Indeed, the bulk of the smaller tradesmen, as we'll as professional men, who are their own masters, are seldom over few months ahead of starv- alton. But in q section where small farms are the rule and where the majority of the farmers do their own work, every man is a veritable king. He may not wear as fine clothes or eat as dyspeptic food as the rich mans servant, out he is healthier and happier than the rich man himself. He is generally year or more ahead of starvation and bankruptcy, let events happen as they will. He feels that the air he breathes is lis own, that he has to come and 20 at no mans call. that he is q shareholder in the earth upon which he treads, and that he is in 'eality, as we'll as in name, a free American citizen. His life is peaceful and serene to an extent which cannot be understood by he average city man whose days Ire full of toll and his nights full ,f anxiety. How to make the arm pay will be treated of in our lext. t.-Baltimore Sun.
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OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
Tsr-ftDrias.

Trr-it Sria.. r.ovor-,a~-,' AIc~er Z1iic'S. Prescott s;-.-r.t,-y -y-,{g-. \. Ervar-l. Prescott. T'rsi-sirs- -itu,ia~ l. Butler. Prescott. Ss1,.er;ui an..rnt of puh.ic iGstrr-uon-C. S;. Slrar--. IGc-uu.
 Suditu--E. '. Clark. !r.scc;t. tumu.i-Sicuev o5 im5ai isratisn-PatricS namiitou. ptPEix.
 Sarrsrrs Coirt-John q. Shields, Chic; Tasti>e. Prescott; W. w. Porter AsSo- ria,s Justice. Phenix; Wm. II. Barnes, Associatc Justice. Tucson.
 U. <. District Attorney-Oven T. Rouse, Tucson.
 U. <. Marshal-W. X. Meade. Tucson. Srrrrvnr General--I. HiSe Tucson. U. :. Internal Revenac Coiiector-W. II. Bristol. Tucsou-
 Delegate to Cons.reSs--C. (. Bean. Prescott .Iui-e of First Judicial District-Wm. II. Barnes. - Judge of Second Judicial District-W. W. Porter, Phenix.
 Judge of Third Judicial District-Joha (. ShiellS, Prescott.
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ADVERTISING HATES.
Clifton lsostONire.

Regular hoars from 1:50 a. n. to I:;sN ?. m. Ragirtraiion from 9:S0 a. n. to : p. ri- Noney Order hours. 9:a0 q. m. to ?. m. Sundays, office opNn from II '. m. to I. m. Mail departs for Soiomonville Tucstays, Saturdays. Mail closes 6:S0 .. ra.
 Mail for Morenci closes at 5:.so a. sl- No foreign or mutils:ed money will he received for stamps. box rent or postll orders. Parties calling for mail matter other than that which is addressed to themselves must present an order for delivery.
 C. NJ. CLARK, P. Nj.
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Picking Out a Wife.

I was always partial to the ladies, says a writer in the Pittsburg Dis patch, and did q great deal of gal lanting them around and making them have as good a time as my self. But when 1 came to the age at which most young men fall in love 1 was very careful to single out a lady of my own age, and one who had an extra amount of common sense aid good breeding; one who was always considerate of others welfare, and was not asham ed that she kept house for three younger children left orphans when quite young.
 Now, after three years of mar red life, I have never seen my wife untidy. She makes it her business to keep herself looking as neat as her house, and I have yet to see her out of humor, or in the least ways cross, and although 1 do not make anything like big wages, yet she manages to keep the house in all necessaries, and 1 have more money in my pocket at the end of the month than I ever had or could manage to save be- fore I was married.
 1 think if more young men would look on the practical side of matrlmony there would not be so many disappointing unions.
 Common sense is the thing. Never mind the pretty face, bright eyes. or small feet. Has she a good supply of common sense? It beats music and drawing far enough.
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"The son of the Duchess de Galliera," says the New York Fri bvne, probably has the finest collection of postage stamps in the world. It fills 800 volumes and has cost him more than S350,- O1D
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He, (entreatingly.) Won't you give me this next waltz, Miss Vio- let?" She coqiIettishly) Per haps, if you press me- The bold horrid thing "I'll do that as Wa dance"
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A Philadeldhia woman who was told by her physician that she must give up facing or die, stuck to the corset and died game.
The Arizona champion., 1887-05-14

and nick on top of right; horses with the same brand on left thigh; range Mrrnli0n mOuntaiYS
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The Effects of Mentan.xhaustlon.

Many diseases, especially those oi the nervous system, arc the products of daily renewed mental exhaustion. Business avocati0ns often involve an amount of mental wear and tear very preiudicial to physical health, and the professions, if arduously pursued, are no less destructive to brain and nerve tissue. It is one of the most impor. .ant attributes of Hostetter's Stomach Bit;ers, that 1t compenSates for this undue loss of tissue, and that 1t i'm parts new energy to the brain and nerves. The rapidity with which it renews weakened mental energy and physical vitality is remarkable, and shows that its invigoratiug properties are of the highest order. Besides Tn . creasing vital stamina, and counter acting the effects of mental exhaustion, this potential medicine cures and pre- vents fever and ague, rheumatism, chronic dyspepsia and constipation, kidney and uterine weakness and other complaints, Physicians also commend ir as a medicated stlmulant and remedy.
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PleuIO Pneumonia

A special dispatch to the Denver News from Chicago, dated May 4th., says:
 A local paper here says this morn- ing that pleuro. pneumonia, according tS the statistics of tie state live stock commission, is more prevalent in Chi ago aud vicinity, than II ever was LclUre. 1t has been found necessary 10 quarantine the district between the lake and ue Desplains rIyer, lying north oi twenty-seCond street, inclu- r'ng the towns of L5keview and Jef. lesson, and to establish patrol Sys. tenn 10 prevent the smuggling of cat. le past the quarantine limits. With. | the quarauIlne district, the strong, esl measures for stamping out the llasuc have been adopted. Diseased COWS have been slaughtered by hun dreds, infected barns have been dis iuieCled and even destroyed ia some eases since the first discovery of the dReaae. Yesterday the count of the veterinarians engaged, showed that S2o COWS were quarantined and upwards of 100 were slaughtered. ne number in quarantine two weeks ago was Io,aso, the decrease being due entirely to the si aughtering meth cds Tn vogue. Two hundred and sev. enteen cows were taken from the swill troughs of the Empire distillery shed at one time which were driven to the Archer avenue shambles and killed.
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SUNDAY SMILES.

Hanging is too good for painting that is badly executed.
 A good salesman is like bad coin "a perfect counter-ft.
 Man is 90 per cent. water, and yet the Prohi bitionists are not satisfed.- Life.
 Bulzac said that "nothing was ire deemably ugly but sin." But then BaIzac died without having seer Zu- lick.
 "Where are you going" my pretty maidI
 "I'm going milking, sir she said. "Can not help you" my pretty maid3
 "You can work the pump handle, sir, she
 said.
 Don't you know If you don't quit drinking you'll never get ahead in the world?" "Won't get head? Why, tomorrow morning I'll have head on me as big as a house.
 "Mamma," sad smart four year old. "Hasn't papa got a funny iaea of heaven2" "What makes you think so, Tommy" enquired his mother. "Well, l heard him say that the two weeks you were away visiting grand ma seemed like heaven to him"
 The rage for collecting oil paintings IS increasing among our rich men. Rockefeller, the president of the stan. dard oil company, recently offered SIoo, 900 for Mlllets "Angelus. " Rockefeller ought to know a good thing in oil when he sees it.
 "I ain't much in a city like New York;" said the Col. who had been drinking all day at his New York friends expense, "but out in Arizona I'm pretty big gun" "Yes," said his friend as he paid for another round, "you are big gun Colonel. It costs considerable to load you up.
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w ERKLY CHAMPION.
SATURDAY, MAY IA, 1887.
THE WORLD IN BRIET.

Brewers employees In San Francisco are on a strike.
 The duty on steel and iron has been raised in Russia.
 The chief of the Tuscarora Indians is dead, aged 77 years.
 Prince Fredrick Leopold, only son oi Prince Karloi Prussia, is on visit to Chicago.
 Sir John Macdonald, premier of Canada, has been elevated to the British peerage.
 Queen Kaprolain is amusing her self in Washington seeing the sights of the American capitol.
 Another bank cashier, this time from Joliet, H., has decamped for Canada, taking with him about SIoo,- 900.
 A gas we'll, the largest ever discov- cred, has been found at Fairmont, Ohio. It IS flowing I2,ooo, ,ooo feet per day.
 If Cleveland is not the nominee of the democrats for the next presiden- tial term, it looks as If 1t would by Mir Carlisle.
 Some very umpalatable facts are be- ing published by the agricultural de partment concerning the manufacture of oleomargarlne.
 The supreme court of Vermont has decided that conspiracy among workmen to keep others from work IS a crime at common law.
 An Ohio bigamist who has four wives has been sentenced to the pen itehtiary for four years, one year for each wife. Not half enough.
 There was a hanging last week in California. John Roger, who killed Judge John H. Klmball, while con- hitting burglary was the culprit.
 A clock is being constructed for Manhattan Island which will have the largest face of any clock Tn the world. It will be 50 feet in diameter and the minute hand will be eight yards long.
 Two men were judicially hanged in New Mexico last week and another this week. Murderers are much too prevalent in our neighboring territo. " to spare the gallows.
 A miser named Crary died on Sun. day in a hut near New York, in ap. parently the most abject misery. Al, ter his death S75,OOO in notes and gold was discovered concealed under. neaEh the floor.
 Fredrick Gambrile, a fighting edi tor of Jackson, Mississippi, was killed in an off hand duel with Col Hamil. ton, General Manager of the Gulf and Ship Island railroad, on Saturday last. Hamilton is seriously wounded.
 The probabilities are that Golden son, tbe murderer of Manic Kelly in San Francisco, will be granted a new trial on the grounds that his victim died from lead poising. The lead was fired from Goldenson's pistol. President Garfield dIed from lead poising, but that did not save Guiteau from the gallows.
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Yavapai county. Ear marks-Swal- low fork in right, under bit and slit m left ear. Ali h,rses belons ing to Us are branded same on Jeff hIp.
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the vicinity, the result was that all
 were more or lees rotten, and some entirely so, Some were so badly rot.
 ted as to be easily penetrated by the
 fingers; and, although having the ap. pearauce of good ties, in reality were nothing but finder. We presume that a proper examination would result in the discovery that most of the ties along the road are in this condition, and that instead of the poor excuses given for the recent accidents the re- al cause has been defective and rotten ties '---Mohave Miner.
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Babhitt Bros.--P. o. Address. Flagstaff. Arizona. Range, Clark Valley, Mogo!lon mountains. Brand as above cut. All young stock brand ed on both sides, with swallow tork and underb,t in each ear. Also own the following: Boot, T, ' F, any where on left side of animal. Boot cattle, road brand w on right sid :; T cattle, cross on right side. iors, brand, co.
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 YOUNG NzEEN Suffering from any of the above symptoms, should consult us at once. The draIn can be stopped, vitality restored, and life be made again pleasure instead of burde n There arc many
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Renews Her Youth.

Mrs. Phoebe Chesley, Peterson, Clay Co.,, Iowa, tells the following remarkable story, the truth of which is youched for by the residents of the town: 'I am g years old, have been troubled with kidney complaint and lameness for many years; could not dress myself without help. Nov l am free from all pain and soreness, and am able to do all my own house . work. l owe my thanks to Electric Bitters for having renewed my youth, and removed completely all disease and pain" Try a bottle, only SOC. at D. J. Brannen & Co.'S Drug Store.
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Thedeplorable condition of the road bed of the Atlantic and Pacific rail road, which has of late resulted in so many accidents, is being exposed and commented upon in very severe terms by some of our contemporaries along the line of the road. As an instance of the condition of the track in this county we give the statement of a friend, whose veracity is unimpeacha- ble, that, in crossing the Wallapai valley few days since on horseback i, his horse stepped on one of the ties and stumbled and nearly fell. Dis. mounting from his horse to discover the cause our friend noticed that the horses foot had gone clear through the tie. This aroused his curiosity and led him to examine other ties in
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Walter J. Hlll---P.O. Flagstaff, Va vapai Co.,, Ariz. Ranch, Volunteer Spring; range, San Francisco and Mogollon mountains; cattle branded II on left hip; ear mark, mortise in left ear; horses branded H on left jaw; all stock sold vented; ;sheep brand ed Fl on left side of nose; ear mark, left ear cropped short or metallic tag, or both.
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YOUNG NIEN

Suffering from any of the above symptoms, should consult us at once. The draIn can be stopped, vitality restored, and life be made again pleasure instead of burde n There are many
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to Etchau's Golden Balsan, Co Cures Chancros, frs. and seccnI sta1e. S5rcs cn the Legs and Body. Scrs Ea1 Eyes, hosc, etc, Copper-c loved b.otches sSpAlItle Cat1rTh, diseased Scalp, and Il primary iosns Of the disease Known s Syphilis. Price. $ CO per HottIa 70 1ichou's GaIdan RaIsam Nod Cures Tertiary, Mercuria' SypSi;itic Rhet, mat'sm, Pains ia tho BoLes, Pains in ths Head, back of the Neck, Liberated soyS Throat, eyph..t'c Rash, L;,r,ps and con tractcd CorJs, Stiffness of the Limbs. a-d eradicatcj al disease from the syssen whether caused by ind discretion or abus St Mercury, leaving the blood pure ar1 healthy. Prtco s5 GO ger Toitle, Le i.schnu'a Golden sSisanfsh Anti. dcte Ior the cure oi lono.rhua. Cleet irr!taton Gravel, aao sN Urinary or Gent 1l lelSaIraAgementc. Price ga 50 peg To sichsu's Golden Srantsh In. Jection, for Seyese c9;es of GoDorrhcoa lniiammato-y Glaet, st.ictuhae So, Price M be per HOgtfes
 Le Nfchau's Golden Ointment Tor tae loctive hcalingot Syphilitic coros, and erupt!ons. Price @I 60 per Box Lo htChaE's Golden Piiys-Nerys and Braln treatment; loss o1 phy irsl pow. er, excess C. oscr-woFk Trosth ton, etc. Price So Co p.r Box.
 Tonic end Nervine,
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Verde and Mogol'on mountains; P. Q. address, Flagstaff. Ariz.
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Ali cattle branded as above are the property of the undersigned. Ea' marks: Square crop off the left, un- derbit in the right. Range, Mogollon Mountains. P. o. Address, Flag staff, Ariz. AL, DOYLE.
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CHI Schulzj cattle branded C-s on left side and bar across the thighs; ear marks, crop of rrshl over andHr- der slope in left; horses branded same on left shoulder; sheep, cwes crop off the right car and the lef sharpened; wethers crop of the Icf. and right sharpened; range San Fra nciSco mts; F . ad. FlagstaG, Ariz.
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All cattle bearing the above brand on right hip are the property of the undersigned. Ear marksi crop and split in right ear, and split on top of left ear. Also all cattle with bar NJ on both sides. Also all horses branded barM on left shoulder RangeMogollon Mountains. P. O. Flagstaff, Arlz.
 r. NJ. VANDERLIP,
 ". B. VANDERLIP, JR.